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Latitude: 53.1944 / 53°11'39"N
Longitude: -2.8865 / 2°53'11"W
OS Eastings: 340872
OS Northings: 366739
OS Grid: SJ408667
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2MCZ
Mapcode Global: WH887.MYPY
Plus Code: 9C5V54V7+QC
Entry Name: The Catholic Club
Listing Date: 19 May 1995
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375710
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469689
Location: Chester City and the Garden Quarter, Cheshire West and Chester, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Boughton
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 BROOK STREET
1932-1/6/20 (South East side)
19/05/95 No.24
The Catholic Club
(Formerly Listed as:
BROOK STREET
Ye Olde Bowling Green Hotel)
II
Hotel, later public house, now licensed club. 1913-14. By John
Davies and Sons. For Greenall Whitley and Co. English garden
wall bond red-brown brick with yellow sandstone dressings and
timber frame with plaster panels; pebbledash; graded
Westmorland green slate roof. Frontages in Vernacular Revival
style, the domestic rear in Queen Anne style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; two 3-window wings at right angles, one
to Brook Street, the other to Milton Street deeply recessed to
contain a corner entrance. Ground floor of brick dressed with
yellow sandstone; mullioned and transomed leaded casements and
canted bay windows to each wing; double part-glazed panelled
oak doors in Roman Doric porch with entablature and upper
storey of stone-dressed brick between 2 projecting plinthed
chimneys with lozenge flues. The first floor has ornate small
framing with jetties on herms and quadrant and curved
herringbone braces; mullioned leaded casements and oriels;
well-handled informally composed roofs.
The rear is pebbledashed; a one-storey rear wing provides
balcony to first floor with shaped splat balusters; small-pane
windows standing proud of wall-face; 2 canted bays; modillion
cornices and eaves; 5 plinthed chimneys with lozenge flues
INTERIOR not inspected, but externally visible rooms appear to
have had some features removed.
This item is the most substantial and well-composed example of
John Davies's Vernacular Revival public houses in Chester.
(Chester City Council and Committees: Improvement Committee
Minutes: 5/2/1913).
Listing NGR: SJ4087266739
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